All police officers, together with Ontario Provincial Police and police forces within the Greater Toronto Area, shall be paying explicit consideration to motorists whose driving behaviours fall into the 4 fundamental classes of:

Impaired driving

Failure to make use of seat belts

Speeding and/or aggressive driving

Distracted driving

“Improving road safety and traffic flow for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists is one of our goals in support of the Service priority and commitment to safe communities and neighbourhoods,” a Toronto police press launch stated on Thursday.

“We all need to do our part to reduce these tragedies on our roadways.”

On Thursday, OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt helped launch ‘Operation Impact’ within the GTA with the assistance of police officers from Toronto, Peel and Ontario areas.

A Toronto police officer stated they’re presently specializing in educating drivers and pedestrians to share the roadways, as there have been 48 pedestrian fatalities reported to date this yr. In Peel area, that quantity has hit 17.

“In OPP patrolled areas across the province, we’ve had 239 road fatalities already, 182 of them were as a result of one of the ‘big four’; either aggressive driving, distracted driving, not wearing their seat belt or impaired driving,” Schmidt stated.